Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-07-14
ON CHANGE.
Spot Cotton Fractions LoWer-Futures
Irregular, in Some Cases Higher, in
Others L0wer-Money Easy.
Wheat Opened Weak, FIuctuatcd Narrowly
and Closed at a Decline Live
Stock TRANSACTIONS Brisk,
Daily Review.
GAZETTE OFFICE I
tORT WORTH, IEN., July l5, 1851.

GAZETTE OEEICE, I
FORT WORTH, Ten, July -, 1851.
Trade was about sn average to-day in
al lines.
Reports from tie rice crop are more
favorable and the boom looked for in
prices will probably not come.
Lemons still have an upward tendency.
THE STATE OF TRADE.
Special telegrsms TO Bradstreet's yes
terday show rather more than 2 proper
tionate volume OF general trade through
out the country, considering the inter
vention OF q holiday, the hot weather
and midsummer season, with stock
taking, and the accompanying check
10 activity Ia industrial lines.
At New York, Boston, Baltimore and
Philadelphia leading staple markets are
quiet. Dry goods at eastern centers are
dull, boots and shoes fairly active, and
leather is quiet, At Pittsburg general
trade Is fair only, and prices irm. No
features are reported from Indiana and
ONO cities. F2H trading, however, has
begun ct Detroit, and the movement Of
goods Is better than one year ago. Chi
Csgo's volume of transactions equals, if
1t does not exceed, the preceding week,
8nd orders in leading lines are increasing
noticea5ly. At Quincy fall trade is open
ing and manufacturers are busy,
and at Burlington, Iowa, business
is improving. St. Joseph reports the
situation satisfactory and better
than last year, though the volume is
smaller than week ago, while Kansas
City's trade movement is good, even
brisk IN staple lines, except N grain.
New Orleans and Galveston likewise send
favorable reports, due largely to favor
able crop prospects.
Leading money markets are quite &C
tive. New York reports less stringency,
and rates normal, but Boston aud Kansas
City bankers quote higher rates Of dis
count, with demand exceeding available
supplies. The western demand for NOV
ing the crops mas begun, but all lines of
trade are borrowing more freely, notice
ably 81 Chicago The advance of New
York exchange st the west has been e
feature
The intangible character Of the negoti-
atoms for the settlement OF the telegraph
contest, and uncertainty as to the inten-
tons Of leading individual factors con
cerninEl that and other matters, aid in
producing dull and unsettled feeling in
the New York stock market; prices in the
absence Of support or interest teud to
decline in spite OF easier money.
The weeks bank Clearlngs at thirty
eight cities, specially wired to Brod-
streets, aggregates $3.50, 500, GG4,
decline of about y per
cent. from last week, but nearly IS
per cent. more than the CORE
spending week Of 1856. The six months
total OF bank CleGrings, thirty cities, are
10 per cent. over 1856, II per cent. over
1850, and 81 per cent. over 1881. New
York's six months aggregate q per cent.
over 1856, Il per cent. over 1851, but u
per cent. less than in 1854, when over
trading and excessive speculation marked
the earlier half of the year. Leading
western cities, with heavy relative in
creased clearings, msrk the growth of in
dustrie5 and jobbing ct inc interior
Brsdstreets.